Lamp-supporting attachment for miners&#39; caps



w ISRAEL. LAMP SUPPORTING ATTACHMENT FOB MINERS CAPS.

APPLICATION EILED JUNE 21, l9l8.

' Patented July 5, 1921. FIG 1- M W W A TTOR/VIEY ire srra WILLIAM isnenlr'or KINGSTON, PENNSYLVANIA; AssIeNoa or Y sYnNnY ISRAEL, or KINGSTON, PENNSYLVANIA;

BE. I

. ONE- err T LAMP-SUPPORTING ATTACHMENT FOR MINERS CAPS.

, Application filed June 21, 1918. Serial'lfl'o. 241,305. g

' lowing is a specification.

There are at present a'nuinber of different kinds or styles of miners lamps being manufactured and which are in: use, each kind or style being provided with means peculiar to itself for engagement with the lamp-supporting attachment upon miners caps,

which necessitates each attachment being provided with special means adapting it for use in connection with one particuliar kind or style of lamp. Heretofore it has been the practice universally to provide lamp-supporting attachments adapted only for one kind or style of lamp. When such lampsupporting attachment has been'or is attached to a cap, only a lamp provided with an attaching means adapted to that particular kind of lamp-supporting attachment could or can be engaged with said supporting attachment. I

7 Such practice of constructing different kinds or types of lamp-supporting attachments each type or kind being adapted only for use in connection with a'lamp provided with a particular kind of attaching means corresponding thereto, is expensive and wasteful of material time and labor required in the manufacture of the same.

My inventionghas for its object broadly to obviate this wasteful practice by providing a lamp-supporting attachment having means whereby any known lamp having any of the known means for attachingit to a lamp-supporting attachment may be attached thereto and supported thereon and thereby.

More specifically stated, my invention has for its object to provide a single lamp-supporting attachment for miners eaps pro-.

vided with a plurality ofhdifferent means, each adapted for engagement with the attaching means upon the different kinds oflamps now manufactured and in use.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will be specifically referred to and pointed out in the detailed description thereof which follows orwill be apparent from such description.

tachment In order that the practical advantages of my invention may be more fully appre' clated, I have illustrated in the drawings constituting and forming a part of this specification an attachment. constructed in a Specificationof-Letters Patent. Patented July 5, 1921.

accordance with my invention, and have also illustrated several different forms of'ininer's lamps provided with different kinds of attaching means foriwhich the supporting atembodying my invention is adapted. V v I In the said drawingsr; V

Figure -1 is a perspective view of a miners cap provided with a lamp-supporting 'attachment constructed in accordance with my invention; I I Fig. 2is a perspective view of a lamp having a specific form of attaching means which is adapted for engagement with means provided therefor in the lamp-supporting attachment shown in Fig. 1; l l

Fig. 3 is a view taken ontheline 3-3 of Fig. 1 showing a portionof the cap in section and showing a portion of the attachment in vertical,longitudinal section, and also showing a lamp with a different kind of attaching means from that shown in Fig. 2 attached to the said lamp-supporting attachment; and I Fig. 1 is a perspective view of another form of lamp having still another form of means for attaching it to the lamp-support v ing attachment.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a miners cap constructed as usual of pliable fabric provided with'astiff vizor 2. The

' lamp-supporting attachment comprises the forwardly and downwardly extending portion 3, securedby means of rivets'or equiva-, lent fasteners 4: to, the forward edge portion ofthe vizori.2. l The portion 3 extends in substantially parallelrelation to the vizor 2.

-'1'he central'portion 5 of the attachment exand support a lamp 11, having a single hookshaped means 12 as shown in Flg. 3 for en: gaging the said attachment, 1 have provided the portion 8 of said attachment with an opening 13, in rear of a central vertical slot 14L, provided in the rectangular-shaped portion oi the attachment formed by the upper end of the part 5, the portion 6 and the depending portion 7. The said slot opens into a relatively wide opening 15 formed in the upper central portion of the part 5 of the attachment. The presence of the latter opening is to permit relative swinging movement between the lamp 11 and the cap when the wearer of the cap Stoops. in other words, when the person wearing a cap stoops down, if he is carrying on the lamp-supporting attachment upon his cap a lamp such as that shown in Fig. 3 of the d1: wings, the lat e will swing 011.7 or away from the upright p tion 5 of the said attachment and the end of the hook 12 will swing forward and project into the opening 15.

if, instead of using a lamp such as that shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, a lamp such as is shown in Fig. 2 be used, it can be secured in position upon the supporting attachment by inserting the two prongs 16, which are spaced from each other, through the spaced 0 aenings 1'? DX'OVlClGCl 1n the hornzcntal portion 6 or the lamp supportin atfl "\L l-" b Ha m t I1 1. tacmne t. it may e was ins eat or L having attachments such as those shown at and 12 in l 2 and 3 of the d awnr lamp having single fiat plate-like attaching means 18, as shown in Fig. lor. the drawin s, may be employed. in that it will he new essary to provide a corresponding opening in the lamp-supporting attachment "for the reception of such flat attaching means 18. Q h l 0 one an opening is s icwn at a i i or the drawings. This opening extends at right angles to the slot 1 previously referred to and is formed by cutting notches in the horizontal br1dge portion 6 of the attachment upon opposite sides of the said slot 1st, as is clearly shown in 1 of the drawings.

It may be that instead of having a plurality of attaching means such as 16 shown in Fig. 2, the lamp may have a single,'relatively wide attaching means. In such case, a corresponding attaching means should be provided upon the lamp-supporting attachmerit. Such means is shown at 21 in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

A; though not illustrated, such lamps are constructeo; that is,1amps having a single relatively wide attaching means.

It will be seen that l have provided a single lamp-supporting attachment for miners caps which is capable of supporting four different kinds or types of lamps; that is, lamps having four different kinds otmeansby which the same'may be attached or secured to and supported upon the lamp-supporting attachment, thereby rendering unnecessary the manufacture of tour ditierent kinds of lamp supporting attachments for supporting the four different kinds or-types of lamps. In this way a great saving of material is effected as well as great economy in the cost of material and manufacture.

It will be'understood that the different openings as shown and described may be formed while the strip of which the attachment is constructed is in a flat or un formed state and that after the said openings shall have been cut through the said strip, the latter may be formed into the shape as shown in Fig. 1.

In connection withthe staple-like holding means 21 which in fact forms a socket for the reception of the relatively wide, fiat attaching means 7 provided upon cez tain forms of lamps, it may be noted that when the openings 13, 14:, etc. are cut into a flat blank as above described, the material of said blank is slit upon opposite sides of the portion 21, ai'te which the portion 21, intermediate the said. slits is bent or projected outwardly to form the socketlike opening previously referred to.

1 claim:

1. A lamp-supporting attachment for miners caps provided with a plurality of separate and independent means for separately and independently supporting a plurality of kinds of lamps each having a different kind of means for securing the same to the said lampsupporting attachment.

2. As an article of manufacture, a lampsupporting attachment for miners caps consisting of a strip of suitable material having a central portion which, when the attachment is secured to a cap, extends in {general parallel relation to the body of the same and the upper end of which terminates in a rearwardly extending portion, a portion extending a short distance downwardly from the rear end of the latter portion, and a portion extending rearwardly from the lower end of the said downwardly extending portion, the second mentioned rearwardly extending portion having an opening for the reception of a hook for supporting a miners lamp and a slot in said strip in front of said opening and in alinement therewith and a plurality of openings in the first named rearwardly extending portion of said strip adapted to receive supporting prongsattached to a lamp, substantially as described I 3. As an article of manufacture, a lampsupporting attachment for miners caps consisting of a strip of suitable material having a central portion which, when the attachment is secured to a cap, extends in general parallel relation to the body of thesame and the upper end of which terminates in a rear-- wardly extending portion, a portion extending a short distance downwardly from the rear end of the latter portion, and a portion extending rearwardly from the lower end of the said downwardly extending portion, the second mentioned rearwardly extending portion having an opening for the reception of a hook for supporting a miners lamp, a slot in said strip in frontof said opening and in alinement therewith and a plurality of openings in the first named rearwardly extending portion of said strip, and

the said strip also having a relatively nar-- row portion extending transversely thereof provided by a couple of slits cut in parallel relation to each other, the said portion being pressed outwardly to form a socket for the reception of a relatively wide supporting projection upon a lamp.

4. As an article of manufacture, a lampsupporting attachment for miners caps comprising a strip of suitable material adapted to be secured to the front portion of" a cap, the upper portion of said strip intermediate its ends being bent to form a U-shaped portion and the said strip having a portion which extends rearwardly from the rear part of said U-shaped portion and which is adapted to be connected with the top portion of the cap, the said rearwardly extending portion being provided with an opening for the reception of a hook attached to a lamp and the said strip having a slot cut through the said U-shaped portion and extending longitudinally of the said strip and being in alinement with the said opening, and a plurality of openings formed in the connecting part of the said U-shaped portion adapted to reside of the cap when the said attachment is.

secured to the cap, the upper end of said central portion terminating in a rectangular or U-shaped part, the terminal end portion of said strip which is connected to the top of the cap being provided with anopening for the reception of a hook having connection with i a lamp, a slot cut through the said U-shaped portion and extending longitudinally of the said strip and being in alinement with the said opening but separated therefrom by a narrow strip of material and the said slotterminating in a relatively wide opening formed in the said central portion, notches formed in the opposite sides of the said slot in the top of said U-shaped portion and ad ditional slots or openings formed in said part in spaced relation to the said notches, the

said strip having slits formed in the central portion thereof, the strip of material between the said slits being projected outwardly to form a socket for the reception of a correspondingly shaped shank having connec tion with a lamp.

' In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of June, A. 111918.

WILLIAM ISRAEL. 

